Major Additions - Product Review Forums ? Research, Review & Compare Items

Version 1.4.0 has been released to remove the giftery / list it integration of the addon now that service has been discontinued. No upgrade is needed though there have been a few other bug changes since 1.3.5.

Finding Feedback Can be Like a Needle in a Haystack

The more your forum grows, the more of a challenge it becomes to sort through the history and get the full story.

Product Review Forums Brings Structure to the Chaos

As a full-featured product management addon, PRF sits on top of your forum allowing you to create defined products which, unlike individual posts, stay relevant over time. Each comment, review and even product updates filter back into this one spot allowing for a quick and comprehensive overview while the individual discussions rage on as always.

Here's just a few of the many features you'll find in PRF:

• Bring structure to products with established pages & reviews
• Reduce the number of repetitive posts from members looking up the same info
• Increase your traffic with content-rich, seo friendly, product listings
• Drive revenue by adding your own affiliate links to product listings
• Increase the activity stream's value with review integration
  
• Engage visitors with integrated wishlists from Giftery.me

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Installation is not upload & go... individualized settings are required. Read the install file.

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Enabling Product Forums: To show product details and ratings, each product-forum must be enabled in the forum manager.

Adding Products: You may upload products one at a time through the admin [includes an image uploader using GD] or you can bulk import through XML. You can also enable users to add moderated products through a global and usergroup option.

Product Review Index: To access your forum's product overview go to www.yoursite.com/productforums.php - You may want to add a link to this to your navbar or as a tab.

Customization: This addon is made to be customized. To change the color schema see clientscript/vbulletin_css or dive right on in to the templates and phrases.

Powered by Giftery.me: This mod is maintained includes two integrations you should know about. Both can be controlled through the mod options.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Snipuh21

I had this mod installed but it turned out not to work in the way I needed without beaucoup extra work that was not in my budget. That said I had it uninstalled and now the default thread rating system is not working. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions as to how to attack it? Thank you very much.

There should be not changes to your thread ratings as the mod works on an entirely different set of parameters and tables created for it.

That said, what's happening?

[Snipuh21]

Originally Posted by Ted S

There should be not changes to your thread ratings as the mod works on an entirely different set of parameters and tables created for it.

That said, what's happening?

Thanks for prompt reply. The star ratings that are supposed to show up on the forum page next to a thread are not appearing. Thread ratings are turned on and the number of ratings required for stars to show is set to 1.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Snipuh21

Thanks for prompt reply. The star ratings that are supposed to show up on the forum page next to a thread are not appearing. Thread ratings are turned on and the number of ratings required for stars to show is set to 1.

Did you make the manual template change listed in the install instructions?

[Snipuh21]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Did you make the manual template change listed in the install instructions?

I am checking. In the meantime, vBulletin support responded that the star-ratings are "not showing because your images are missing". Do you think they could have been removed when PRF was uninstalled?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Snipuh21

I am checking. In the meantime, vBulletin support responded that the star-ratings are "not showing because your images are missing". Do you think they could have been removed when PRF was uninstalled?

The plug-in system has no access to your file structure. If you deleted them while removing other files however...

[Snipuh21]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The plug-in system has no access to your file structure. If you deleted them while removing other files however...

Okay, thanks for the help.

[Morrus]

Great start, but this thing has some major issues! The main one is the editor which produces walls of text and strips out all formatting. Line breaks are a thing!

Other than that, widgets are a necessity (hopefully those are coming). Being able to choose some product description fields (books might be hardcover, softcover, PDF, for example). And 5-star rating systems are very broad.

But that wall of text is no good! It cripples the entire mod.

Bizarrely, if you edit the post afterwards, you can format it. But no user is going to do that!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Morrus

Great start, but this thing has some major issues! The main one is the editor which produces walls of text and strips out all formatting. Line breaks are a thing!

Line breaks are fully supported. What are your post / html settings?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Morrus

Other than that, widgets are a necessity (hopefully those are coming). Being able to choose some product description fields (books might be hardcover, softcover, PDF, for example). And 5-star rating systems are very broad

Completely! The mod is intended as a starting place and should, by all means, be customized to the unique nature of your community and the products to be reviewed on it.

[Morrus]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Line breaks are fully supported. What are your post / html settings?

Thanks for the quick reply. I've just searched the thread and saw someone else had similar formatting issues which did not get resolved. So I guess it's not a quick fix.

Full WYSIWYG is on (and also works elsewhere on the site/forum just fine). In the reviews area, though, no WYSIWIG, and all formatting and line breaks get stripped even when pasting in a formatted post from elsewhere. As mentioned, you can proceed to edit the post and get the WYSIWIG editor to appear and fix it all, but not on the initial "new review" page.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/productforums.php